AQA A-LEVEL RELIGIOUS STUDIES ) (Solved Questions 100% VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS)

AQA A-LEVEL RELIGIOUS STUDIES Since religious truth is simply a matter of opinion, considering the truth-claims of any given religion may be interesting, but it is not very helpful False To raise the question of the truth-claims of religion means that I must explore the nature of truth itself True Your textbook suggests that in the "popular mindset" one can find at least two camps regarding the nature of truth and truth-claims, especially with regard to religion truth. These are kind of opposite ends of a continuum or like polar opposites. Which one of the following is NOT one of these positions? all truth including religious truth, has some objective source, but the way it is understood and communicated is usually affected by the perspective of the ones making the claim Your author was quick to comment that neither of the two general positions or "camps" discussed in item #3 above adequately express the complexity of establishing truth-claims True Religious truth-claims involve the assumptions, presuppositions, and the interpretations of people necessarily seeing "the truth" through different "lenses." Therefore religious truth-claims have no objective validity whatsoever False The best way to understand a religion is to boil it down to a few basic ideas so as to be able to compare it with other religions False Religions involve many aspects: ritual practices, moral structures, goals, and means of personal development as well as beliefs or "truth-claims" It is a somewhat peculiar characteristic of Western mentality to focus on "beliefs" or "truth-claims" as the defining character of a given religion True In the wake of the post-enlightenment era and the subsequent rise of scientific method has been that the understanding of what "truth" is has been narrowed to "factual" claims and empirically verifiable statements True While religions offer some empirically verifiable "facts," much of religious truth claims are not empirically provable True The rise of post modernity ushered through new insights in philosophy as well as the advent of the new human sciences like psychology, anthropology, sociology has led people to realize even more that scientific truth, empirical truth is the only pure truth and therefore the only real truth; all other knowledges is shaped by subjective opinion and therefore may not be considered true False According to your author, some scholars of religion suggest that we cannot even speak of a given religion as being true because each one of them is comprised of complex history of ideas, events, and people, and therefore is much too intricate and complex to evaluate in terms of overall truth True According to your author, the scholars of religion who contend that religions can be spoken of as true or not true if one speaks of a given religion as being "mythologically" true- i.e. having the power to lead human persons to the REAL or the TRANSCENDENT True The truth-claims of any given religion will most certainly come to bear on the actions members of that religion take toward others-both fellow members of that religion and those outside of their own faith community. Likewise religious truth-claims have greatly influenced the society, culture, and the unfolding of history False With the advent of modern forms of communication, contact with persons of differing religious traditions is part of the fabric of daily life and culture in modern, western countries. but one's position regarding the truth-claims of religion, especially the truth-claims of one's own religious tradition (or lack thereof) has little bearing on this common cultural interchange False Interreligious dialogue can be described as a formal engagement between followers of different religious traditions about commonalities and differences among religious views True Scholars of religion are particularly interested in the work of interreligious dialogue with the hope that one religion will finally be proved to be true False The terms relativism vs. pluralism refer to positions regarding religious truth. both hold that there is a plurality of appropriate religious claims, but relativism holds that there is really no objective truth, while pluralism holds that there are many differing but valid claims to truth which can lead to the "real" and the "true" and thus challenge adherents to actively seek understanding and energetic engagement with diversity True Of all the positions described in item #17 above, relativism seems to lead to the greatest truth, according to your author because it includes everybody and is more consistent with a pluralistic society in which we live False In asserting truth claims, a religion that adheres to an approach called inclusivism would claim that all religions have the truth, they just say it in a different way False In relation to religious truth, exclusivism suggests that a single religious tradition has exclusive claim to all genuine religious truth and that truth about God, the sacred and faith cannot be found in any other religious tradition True Religions are internally diverse True Most people, though not all of course, are fairly literate when it comes to religious issues. therefore public debates and media discussions of religion are usually well-grounded False Religions are historically consistent from one generation to the next. therefore, once a religion forms a particular doctrine, it will never change False Although they did it in the past, today religions have little effect on the public life and culture in which they exist. today religion is a completely private matter False Most religions, though not all of them, are historically diverse True Currently the relationship between science and religion remains as it always has been--conflicted and even combative. efforts to reconcile these two disciplines seem to never get off the ground, even though it would be helpful for each of them and for the wider culture in which their scholarship is done False The tools of philosophy (understood as critical reflection on worldviews) would necessarily have to be employed in this process of putting science and religion in dialogue with each other True A noetic structure refers to the entire content of propositions that a person believes and the relationships among those propositions Which of the following is not one of the four features of a noetic structure? varying beliefs of varying levels of influence and varying levels of verification Anworldview is a conceptual scheme by which a person interprets and judges reality True Only people who are conscious of their worldview and are able to articulate that world view can be said to actually have a worldview False Often it happens that a person's worldview has not been carefully and critically thought through True Religions assert or profess "truth-claims" about God, the universe, and humankind. These religious truth claims: are not provable but reasonable because they are based on evidence that points to truth, even those it does not empirically prove it Some argue that science and religion each deal with totally independent and autonomous realms and never have subject matter that intersects. this way of construing the relationship between science and religion has been described by the acronym NOMA short for "non-overlapping magisteria" true True According to your text, every worldview, in order to be complete, includes the following aspects - an epistemology - an axiology - a metaphysics